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` HENRY ADoLPH p poured.

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BRANDEseoE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, (FRANCIS E. I.

BOSCH, EXEcUToE.) a p I Letters Patent N 104,416, dated June 21, 1870.

IMRRQVEMEN'I" IN INSTRUMENTS PoR GIVING FLUID MEDIcINEs 'Ifo ANIMALS.

r The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom fitmay concern:

Be it known thatI, HENRY ADoLPH BnANDEs, 'veterinary surgeon, of 121 Market Street,in .the city of Newark, in the county-of` Essex, in the State of New Jex'sey,"havc inventeda new, improved, and

` useful Instrument for Administering Fluid Medicines to horse, mule, ass, 1co`w`, or any other animal; and-I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, `and exact description of `the construction and opera tion of the same, reference `being had Ato -the accomthereon.` l rlhe nature of my invention consists inY providing panyiu g drawing and to the letters of 'reference marked a hollow, or partly hollow instrument, made of wood, ymetal, caoutchouc, gutta'percha, or any other4 hard or pliable (substance,` in the shape of a horse-bit, as

` y per figure A, with a hollow or partly hollow tongue,

extending `from it in ,-the', direction of the animals throat, as per gnre B, and provided on the exten- Sion C with a funnel, 1*), iutowhich the fluid is To secure the instrumentin the anima s` mouth, it is` only necessary to attach `itlto 'any ordinary bridle or halter bythe rings EE. i i

`This instrument is providedwith` a nose-strap and ring, F,to which a rope, attached, and drawn through 'all as described.

the ring in the ceiling of the stable, or thrown over a l beam, or between prongs of a pitch-fork, or branch of a tree, or any elevated object above the animals head will enable the loperator to raise its head easily bya pullat the other -end of the rope. The fluid is` then pouredinto the funnel; it traverses the tunnel 0E the bit H, and issues through conical openings in the tongue g g, in the line" of theanimals throat.

By the use of this instrument the animal swallows the medicine easily, avoids the danger and wounds from broken glass, if administered from a bott-le, is less liable to choke, or absorb the medicine into the lungs, and, lastly, swallows a full dose without any loss.

I do not claim as my invention a hollow perforated bit for conveying. wa-ter but I do claim as my inventiouand desire to secure by Letters Patent?- '.lhe combining of a hollow bit with a projecting tongue withl orifices and a funnel forgiving medicines,

H. AQ BEANDEs.

Witnesses:

OTTO MOLTEY, XAVIER KAReHEsTIE. 

